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Sensors for Pi and Arduino Wishlist

In honor of the Summer of Sensors, we've decided to put together a wishlist of sensors and sensor shields/hats that you can incorporate into your Raspberry Pi and Arduino projects.

Shields and Hats for Raspberry Pi and Arduino

Sensors Kit For Raspberry Pi B+/2/3

This kit for Pi helps beginners get their feet wet with Pi development. Included are a PIR sensor, LDR/photoresistor, and temperature sensor, along with various LEDs, buzzer, and button to make testing easy.

Raspberry Pi Sensors Development Kit

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Raspberry Pi Sense HAT with Orientation, Pressure, Humidity and Temperature Sensors

The Pi Sense HAT gives you access to a variety of sensors, including gyroscope, accelerometer, magnetometer, barometer, temperature, and relative humidity sensor. A built-in LED matrix display and 5 button joystick gives you a simple but effective user interface.

Pi Sense HAT

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EKG/EMG Shield for Arduino

Turn your Arduino into a health and medical application. This EKG/EMG Shield lets you experiment with biofeedback, monitoring pulse, and analyzing muscle activity.

EKG/EMG Shield

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Arduino Sensor Evaluation Board

Omron's Sensor Evaluation Board gives you access to 6 common types of sensing (temperature, humidity, light, barometric pressure, noise, and acceleration), and connects directly to an Arduino for quick development.

Sensor Evaluation Board

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Dust Sensor Development Board

For projects that must survive harsh condition, this humidity and temperature probe is IP67 rated, meaning total protection from dust and immersion in up to 1 meter of water. Perfect for devices that sit outdoors.

Dust Sensor

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3-Axis Digital Accelerometer Development Board

The 3-axis digital accelerometer development board connects directly to an Arduino R3, or to Freescale Freedom development boards. Download the Sensor Toolbox software, and get started!

Digital Accelerometer Shield

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Ultrasonic Distance Sensor

For projects that move autonomously, distance sensors are required. This ultrasonic ranging sensor lets your robot sense objects up to 4m away.

Ultrasonic sensor

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Temperature Sensor

Temperature sensors help monitor not only climate and environment, but overheating machinery. This sensor works with both Pi and Arduino, and keeps a watchful eye on thermal conditions.

Temperature Sensor

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Tilt Sensor

Tilt sensors measure orientation or inclination. They're useful in many applications, including robotics, vehicles, and factory automation.

Tilt/Shift Sensor

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37-piece Sensor Set

If you want a variety of sensors that cover almost everything, DFRobot provides a 37-piece kit that contains a wide variety of sensors, including sound, heart rate, color, acceleration, vibration, gas, pressure, and more. Compatible with DFRobot's Gravity system. Each sensor is also available individually.

DFRobot 37 piece sensor kit

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AmbiMate Development Kits

AmbiMate

TE Connectivity's AmbiMate development kits connect to Raspberry Pi or Arduino, and with some downloadable code, let you start collecting data immediately. Several application specific kits are available.

Audio, Humidity, Light, Motion, Temperature
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CO2, Humidity, Light, Motion, Temperature
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  • in reply to dychen

    Oh .. I was wondering why I was receiving notification?

  • in reply to skruglewicz

    Yeah, the giveaway is over...I removed the giveaway text, but forgot to remove the giveaway in the title.  We've just updated some of these wishlists, because some of the products on the list may have been discontinued or sold out since we first published them.  

  • Hello  @cstanton

    This is a very OLD wish list, the Summer of sensors has come and gone? WHat is the intent of this competition?

    If this is a true wish list mine are:

    • TE Connectivity's AmbiMate development kits 
    • DFRobot 37-piece sensor kit 
    • Dust Sensor Development Board

    @skruglewicz

  • How to participate in this giveaway. I am intrested in this giveaway.

  • I have some recent ideas for voc, mobility, motion, temp, air quality sensors in the field of personal mobility and solar generation and storage.  These items would be a HUGE help in getting me off the ground (literally) in working on practical mobility solutions with air quality enhancements. 

  • My wishlist for Arduino is a ToF sensor that can measure the distance of multiple objects at once and also possible to use in gesture tracking,liquid level monitoring like VL53L5CX from STMicroelectronics,and Bosch sensortec BHI260AP self learning AI sensor with 6 axis IMU,
    and DWM1000 from Decawave, ultra-Wideband radar for detecting position in indoor or outdoor position in centimeter range.
    If I am going to create my own sensor HAT, I will put UWB radar with BHI260AP, BMP390 for pressure sensor for the indoor asset tracking for foods or locating important items, such as keys and phone with high precision.

    Some of the coolest sensors I have seen for Arduino and Raspberry Pi is the IM69D130 Shield2Go, it is a MEMS microphone that potentially can work as Voice User interface(VUI) in smart speaker, home automation application, active noise cancelling, high quality audio capturing and also pattern detection for anomaly for industrial or home monitoring for elderly monitoring uses.
    Next, it is DPS368 Pressure Shield2Go, with ultra-high precision as it shows its ability to detect the pressure changes caused by the opening of door.
    Last, it is the 60GHz radar from Infineon Technologies, DEMO BGT60LTR11AIP, which has 10m detection range for humans in SPI, low power consumption of less than 2mW with integrated detectors for motion and direction of motion. It can be used in Smart home devices,security, lighting systems,smart entrance counter solution also show promises in vital sensing application for heart rate monitoring.

  • The most obvious omission for me is a themocouple.  Either 'proper' themocouples or thermistors, PRT's ets.  Sometimes it's useful to monitor temperatures e.g. though a bulkhead or seal, especially if the temperature is beyond human comfort range.

  • If I were to create my own basic sensor shield I would choose the following sensors - LDR (as a light sensor), LM35 for temperature sensing, a microphone for audio, a rotary encoder and a vibration switch. This basic shield can be a good start for people who want to learn sensor interfacing and programming Arduino/Pi.
    For a more advanced version of the shield/hat, I would consider a hall effect sensor, a digital temp and humidity sensor, MAX30100 SPO2 and heart rate sensor, accelerometer and pressure and gas sensors.

    Sensors that are missing from the above list -

    A color sensor such as the TCS3200 from AMS - Converts the color light to frequency, I have used it in the past to do some basic object detection. This sensor can easily distinguish between objects if they have R,G or B color.

    Capacitive touch pads/sensors - Can be used as touch control switches for embedded applications

    A biometric sensor such as a fingerprint sensor

    Angle and position sensors - To detect the movement of the motor and control the motor in robots and other projects.

  • I wish to have all the environment sensors (temperature, humidity, air pressure, air quality, ambient light), sound sensors, IMU sensors, pulse oximeter, heart rate, and ECG sensors. I If I make a sensor hat or shield I would try to include all the sensors I mentioned before. 

    One of my favorite sensor boards is Gravity Analog Decibel Meter (image below) which gives sounding noise levels directly in dB. 

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  • I'm currently building a board around a couple of sensors for indoor localization. One sensor which I find particular interesting is the ST VL53L5CX, which is a 4 m range 8x8 TOF sensor. Other sensors I'm adding to the board are a gyro+accelerometer (ST ISM330DHCX), a baromether (ST LPS28DFW), and a magnetometer (Bosch BMM150).